Sketch a picture, then colour it in mixed styles
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TubeGames verdict
Color a portrait four ways at once; a shallow, satisfying makeover toy rather than a drawing game.
Reviewed by Max, TubeGames · Sep 17, 2026 · How we rate
Drawing Carnival is a coloring game from CrazyLabs, on YouTube since Aug 6, 2024 and one of the older Playables still pulling a crowd. You sketch an outline, split a portrait into four parts, and color each part in a different style: spray paint, neon markers, gems, glitter powder. The first thing I felt was surprise at how fast a picture comes together.
What keeps you going is the mix-and-match. Each quarter can be a different look, so the same face becomes four experiments, and the puzzle side nudges you toward a target while the tools tempt you to go off-script. It has the same tactile pull as the ASMR makeup games, which the App Store text openly leans on.
The problem is depth. Drawing here is tracing, the puzzle rarely pushes back, and after a handful of portraits the tools are the whole game. If the name made you think of a fair, there's no Ferris wheel in sight.
Play it for a relaxed creative session. Skip it if you want to learn to draw, or want a game with a score.
Good
- Four styles on one picture
- Spray, neon, gems, glitter all feel different
- Fast, no waiting for a result
- Relaxed, no fail state
Not so good
- Drawing is really tracing
- Puzzle side is soft
- Tools run out of novelty
About Drawing Carnival
A cool coloring game, you draw a sketch! Unlock your inner artist and create a picture made up of different styles in a puzzle.
Drawing Carnival was published on YouTube Playables on 2024-08-06 by CrazyLabs. In 795 days it has reached about 27M plays.
Drawing Carnival is a colouring game that starts from your own sketch. You draw the outline first, then fill it in, combining different styles into one picture as the puzzle side of the game shapes what goes where.
It is a making game rather than a scoring one, so the reward is the finished image on screen. Sessions can run as long or as short as you want, and it runs inside YouTube with nothing to install. Good for players who like drawing and colouring apps and want one without a download.
How to play: Draw and colour with your finger or mouse, following the outline on screen.
Good for: creative play, relaxed sessions
How to play Drawing Carnival
- Phone / tablet
- Draw the outline with your finger, then swipe to color each quarter with the tool you picked.
- Desktop
- Draw and color with the mouse, holding the button to spray, mark, or place gems.
- Progress
- Progress is saved the way YouTube Playables saves it.
The picture is the reward, so the real decision is which style goes where; contrast between quarters is what makes it work.
Tips for a better picture
- Contrast the quarters. Put a loud style like glitter or gems next to a quiet one like spray. Four loud quarters cancel each other out.
- Trace slowly. The sketch is the skeleton for everything after. A wobbly outline shows through every tool.
- Spray for the big areas. Spray fills large spaces fast and smooth. Save neon and gems for lines and details.
- Match the target first, then play. If there's a reference, hit it before you improvise. The game rewards the match; the freestyle is for you.
- Stop before it's busy. Glitter on top of gems on top of neon is mud. One accent per quarter.
Not a carnival, and not a drawing tutorial
Most people searching for carnival drawings want to draw a carnival: rides, masks, a tent. This is not that. Drawing Carnival is a coloring game where you sketch an outline of a portrait, split it into four parts, and color each with a different tool. There are no carnival rides in it, and it won't teach you to draw one.
If that's what you came for, you'll want a tutorial. If you'd rather color a face with spray paint on one side and glitter on the other, you're in the right spot.
Drawing Carnival vs ASMR makeup games
The App Store text calls the tools a makeup kit, and that's the closest relative: the tap-and-swipe makeover games where the pleasure is watching a surface change under your finger. Drawing Carnival puts that on a portrait and adds the four-quarter split, which is a smarter idea than most of those games have.
Compared with a paint-by-number like Happy Color, it's freer and shallower; you decide what goes where, but there's no picture to reveal, just the one you make. Sessions run five to ten minutes before the tools stop surprising you.
How plays are counted
Public play counts for Drawing Carnival are re-counted every day from the YouTube Playables catalog and shown the way YouTube shows them. The total and rankings above are as of 2026-10-10.
Ratings & reviews
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Elsewhere: 4.7★ (113,209 ratings) on App Store
How we rate
The TubeGames rating is our estimate, not a vote. It combines public ratings of the same game elsewhere (App Store 4.7★ (113,209 ratings)) with how it holds up on YouTube Playables: how many people play it and whether they keep playing weeks after launch. Once 10 players rate Drawing Carnival here, their average becomes the headline score.
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